Button and fastener



(No Model.)

A. STORGK.

BUTTON AND FASTENER.

No. 378,182. Patented Feb. 21, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ANNA STORCK, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

BUTTON AND FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,182, dated February 21, 1888.

Application filed August 15, 1887. Serial No. 247,028. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNA STORCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, Hamilton county, State of Ohio, have invented an Improved Button and Mode of Buttoning Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in means for securing buttons to garments; and it consists in the construction and adaptation of parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of my improvements with abutton attached thereto, and the whole ready to be secured to a garment or the like. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, showing a piece of cloth partly secured; and Figs. 3 and 4. are bot-tom views of my improvements with cloth attached. Fig. 5 is an elevationof a button with my improvements attached to cloth; and Fig. 6 is a diametrical section of my improvements, showing the same in a position ready to be attached to the stem or shank of a button.

Before describing the details of construction I desire to say that I am well aware that it is not new to form a button with a plate secured to its under side, and the plate having barbs or prongs which may penetrate cloth or the like and be bent to secure the button thereto.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, 1) indicates a metallic plate, which may be of any suitable shape, according to the kind or form of button to which it is to be attached; and E indicates abutton having a loop-shank, B, the button and its shank being of the form commonly used.

The metallic plateD is provided on one side 7 with a suitable number of points or prongs, A, in the present instance there being four illustrated. These points or prongs are preferably formed on the plate, but in any event should be secured thereto. This plate D is formed with a central aperture, cl, for the pas sage of the button-shank. This aperture is formed by punching the metal, so as not to remove any of the material. After the puncture d has been made the stem or loop B of a button is inserted therein, after which the displaced metal around the said aperture is then turned back against the button-shank and into the eye thereof. Thus it will be seen that I have a device which mayreadily be applied to all buttons now in use, and when my improvements have been attached the buttons may be applied to a garment without sewing, it being simply necessary to force the prongs A into a fabric, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and then turn down the said points or prongs, as shown in dotted lines in Figs. 3 and 4.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new is The plate D, having points A for securing the same to a fabric,'and a slot, (1, punched therein, in combination with a button having its stem passed through the aperture of the plate and having the displaced metal of the slot turned back on the said stem and into the eye thereof, substantially as specified.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

ANNA STOROK.

X'Vitnesses;

GARL SPENGEL, GEO. W. HARDING. 

